Chapter 80

“As I say,” Mister Grimble went on in his reasonable voice, “her brother can mouth a text, her father’s Sexton, her mother’s Sexton’s married wife, so it stands to reason she’s a good young woman. And you’ve heard what she said. I tell you, what she says is true, and more than true. Now listen. Since birth Prudence Sarn’s been a woman smitten by the Lord. What she does she canna altogether help, being in the power of Satan. That’s why she roams the land, as we know. That’s why she was friend to Beguildy, and learne…